Do You Believe in Magic?

"Do you believe in magic?"
By Benedict Carey
New York Times
Main Topic: Magic (e.g. illusions and magic tricks; mind tricks and magical powers)

While reading this article I did find a new vocabulary word. The word "Buoys" which defined in the dictonary means; [v] To keep afloat or aloft: a glider buoyed by air currents. To maintain at a high level; support.
Throughout this article I learned a lot about magic and illusions and how we procieve things. That when we see a magic trick we are very impressed with what we see before we can put logic to the situation and think about how the trick was approached. The article states , "The brain, moreover, has evolved to make snap judgments about causation, and will leap to conclusions well before logic can be applied. In an experiment presented last fall at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, Ben Parris of the University of Exeter in England presented magnetic resonance imaging scans taken from the brains of people watching magic tricks. In one, the magician performed a simple sleight of hand: he placed a coin in his palm, closed his fingers over it, then opened his hand to reveal that the coin was gone."
Usally people are so ammused that they do not actully relize that its just a magic trick and they're creating an illusion by thinking that the pennie (for example) just dissapeared into thin air. We are exposed to our own thoughts usally which cause illusions. This article also states when people think they have magic powers they're usally helpless. They engage in all these magical rituals which are irrational and pointless. My take on this is that people have their own opions about magical powers and whether they have them or not. I do agree with the article and how it tells us about illusions and how we creat them while watching magic trick. I do believe there needs to be logic applied or else you are believing a magic trick before actully really thinking about it and putting logic into what you have seen.